Having moved from the UK to Spain I have some sympathy with this however I suspect this is more the case with ASDL lines than with cable. One DSL provider in particular is offering 20MB (DSL2+) down + 1MB up for about 35/month. Which sounds great (or sounded great in my case) until you have a problem. The company has so much demand for it services it cannot cope with new activations or problems with new activations. From what I had heard all their internal systems are not linked so when you call their service center any tickets/issues raised to get an engineer out to test your line never make it to the engineers. To add to that Telefonica (the national equivalent of British Telecom or AT&T (or what ever they are called)) is being investigated for anti-trustbusiness practices in their provision of broadband.
Saying that since I moved here I have been with Ono the largest (if not only now) cable provider and have had on the whole a fault-less service. Not as fast as the ADSL2+ offerings but it works which is what I need for working from home. More than I can say for Jazztel
To make things worse the guy or gal doing the checking was probably a rent-a-cop or such like with quality 'id' badge that would get laughed at by any teen producing fake ID.
I had a run-in with the AA pre-checkin security at Gatwick last spring on my way over to Dallas. Unfortunately my One World card got downgraded and i had to suffer queuing in economy/coach lines. Another unfortunate thing was my ticket was issued 2 days before since my company issued the tickets late. As a result i was asked: - Where i was going - where i was staying - a business card, to prove i worked for that company - an employee id badge - additional photo id - which is not a legal requirement to produce in the UK - yet... - if had any electrical equipment - if it had been serviced recently, it had - by who - what changes were made - how long was it away for and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Compare that with flying a few months later with Virgin Atlantic or BA to JFK, there was no interrogation. Given a choice of airline i will not be flying AA again.
Anyway the cabin crew are friendlier and better looking on those airlines...
I am not quite sure this is correct. There have been sucessive new releases of the product since 1994 when CA acquired ASK (6 major releases). CA were in closed beta with the next release until the announcment yesterday.
Would you call Cluster support, replication, parallel query execution, numerous performance enhancements amongst others, not progressing the product. The company still has development and support staff located in every continent.
I still remember what Ingres was like after CA acquired it from ASK. The OpenIngres 1.0 release was canned due to the marginalized development by ASK. it took 2 major releases before stability returned. Many ex-Ingres staff still lament about how good it was under ASK. Perhaps if ASK had spent its money on development rather than the parties perhaps Ingres would be in better state after the ASK acquisition.
i do not know about all db vendors but the one i work for has ported its RBDMS to Linux/OS390 and is in the process of doing both Alpha Linux and IA-64 (via the emulator...)
The Gnu thing valid. I find it almost a waste of time. I mean it's nice to hop into bash, and look around and edit files, but it almost feels like you're running an emulation OS or something. Be is pretty sexy, but seems pretty toy-like at the mo. I would be happier if they finished the QuakeII port:)
I suppose the media OS thing is an attempt to leverage some buyin from the developers. At the moment it is mainly hackers. To tell you the truth, it would be a kind-of cool client for a linux backend.
With a decent hardware-OpenGl interface, it would rock as a gaming platform
The problem from having too much computer experience, is that you take too much knowledge for granted. Trying to teach a computer newbie is frustrating, because you can't see they weren't *born* with the basic skills (using the cd tray as a coffee holder etc)
You are right though, InstallShield would be brilliant. What annoys me at the mo' about installation, is that no shortcuts are created. This doesn't matter so much to me, because I can run the programs from the line, but normal users don't know how. The cool thing about Windows, is just installing some widget/app/whatever and you can double click on the *dinky* icon, and go.
There is sooo much work needed for the front end (desktop/X/whatever). Too bad I'm too crap at C to join in *sigh*.
You an asshole. Why does everone have to instantly attack someone who makes a simple mistake (notice Katz gets it right later in the article). Don't worry you are just but one in a list of pedantic wankers.
I assumed he was taking the piss. He was obviously looking for a slashdot type reaction. It wasn't a serious review in any shape or form and it is amusing that everyone gets their knickers in a twist. Also why bother writing enormous reviews of his article and why he was wrong, when there is no way in hell he will ever read them. You're preaching to the converted.
Why would a company damage itself in such a way though? They appear to be using standard benchmarking tools, so is it possible that their findings are valid? I'm a big fan of Linux, but it doesn't mean that it is perfect. How many standard benchmarking studies have been done comparing the two? Much of Linux's performance ratings appear to be annecdotal. Not wanting to invite flaming, but just because it is MS, doesn't mean that it is immediately inferior.
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Having moved from the UK to Spain I have some sympathy with this however I suspect this is more the case with ASDL lines than with cable. One DSL provider in particular is offering 20MB (DSL2+) down + 1MB up for about 35/month. Which sounds great (or sounded great in my case) until you have a problem. The company has so much demand for it services it cannot cope with new activations or problems with new activations. From what I had heard all their internal systems are not linked so when you call their service center any tickets/issues raised to get an engineer out to test your line never make it to the engineers. To add to that Telefonica (the national equivalent of British Telecom or AT&T (or what ever they are called)) is being investigated for anti-trust business practices in their provision of broadband.
Saying that since I moved here I have been with Ono the largest (if not only now) cable provider and have had on the whole a fault-less service. Not as fast as the ADSL2+ offerings but it works which is what I need for working from home. More than I can say for Jazztel
To make things worse the guy or gal doing the checking was probably a rent-a-cop or such like with quality 'id' badge that would get laughed at by any teen producing fake ID.
I had a run-in with the AA pre-checkin security at Gatwick last spring on my way over to Dallas. Unfortunately my One World card got downgraded and i had to suffer queuing in economy/coach lines. Another unfortunate thing was my ticket was issued 2 days before since my company issued the tickets late. As a result i was asked:
- Where i was going
- where i was staying
- a business card, to prove i worked for that company
- an employee id badge
- additional photo id - which is not a legal requirement to produce in the UK - yet...
- if had any electrical equipment
- if it had been serviced recently, it had
- by who
- what changes were made
- how long was it away for
and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Compare that with flying a few months later with Virgin Atlantic or BA to JFK, there was no interrogation. Given a choice of airline i will not be flying AA again.
Anyway the cabin crew are friendlier and better looking on those airlines...
I am not quite sure this is correct. There have been sucessive new releases of the product since 1994 when CA acquired ASK (6 major releases). CA were in closed beta with the next release until the announcment yesterday.
Would you call Cluster support, replication, parallel query execution, numerous performance enhancements amongst others, not progressing the product. The company still has development and support staff located in every continent.
I still remember what Ingres was like after CA acquired it from ASK. The OpenIngres 1.0 release was canned due to the marginalized development by ASK. it took 2 major releases before stability returned. Many ex-Ingres staff still lament about how good it was under ASK. Perhaps if ASK had spent its money on development rather than the parties perhaps Ingres would be in better state after the ASK acquisition.
i do not know about all db vendors but the one i work for has ported its RBDMS to Linux/OS390 and is in the process of doing both Alpha Linux and IA-64 (via the emulator...)
I honestly think Mindcraft are just pissing themselves!
Man, that was a seriously screwed collection of bullshit.
I think the Mindcraft benchmarks were misguided not malign
Well I sent him a polite note, suggesting that his Mother was his Sister and other refreshingly mature comments
Really? Man I must suck!
I normally use KDE and kwm. RPM creates these I take it? How have I not noticed this before. Maybe I'm a crack baby or something.
At work I have suse 6, and at home RedHat 5.2
I must be looking in the wrong places, or not refreshing the desktop or something. Doh!
The Gnu thing valid. I find it almost a waste of time. I mean it's nice to hop into bash, and look around and edit files, but it almost feels like you're running an emulation OS or something. Be is pretty sexy, but seems pretty toy-like at the mo. I would be happier if they finished the QuakeII port :)
I suppose the media OS thing is an attempt to leverage some buyin from the developers. At the moment it is mainly hackers. To tell you the truth, it would be a kind-of cool client for a linux backend.
With a decent hardware-OpenGl interface, it would rock as a gaming platform
The problem from having too much computer experience, is that you take too much knowledge for granted. Trying to teach a computer newbie is frustrating, because you can't see they weren't *born* with the basic skills (using the cd tray as a coffee holder etc)
You are right though, InstallShield would be brilliant. What annoys me at the mo' about installation, is that no shortcuts are created. This doesn't matter so much to me, because I can run the programs from the line, but normal users don't know how. The cool thing about Windows, is just installing some widget/app/whatever and you can double click on the *dinky* icon, and go.
There is sooo much work needed for the front end (desktop/X/whatever). Too bad I'm too crap at C to join in *sigh*.
Yeah. So what? Emacs has the worst learning curve, while Word will get any old idiot going in ten seconds.
What's the point of having one application which does everything? Sounds boring to me.
Still... I use vi
Bad luck on being 14th comment!
Sounds like the Diamond Age is coming true. You know how they all you use that smart paper?
I can't wait to paint my car in that stuff. Woo Hoo
You an asshole. Why does everone have to instantly attack someone who makes a simple mistake (notice Katz gets it right later in the article). Don't worry you are just but one in a list of pedantic wankers.
I assumed he was taking the piss. He was obviously looking for a slashdot type reaction. It wasn't a serious review in any shape or form and it is amusing that everyone gets their knickers in a twist. Also why bother writing enormous reviews of his article and why he was wrong, when there is no way in hell he will ever read them. You're preaching to the converted.
Why would a company damage itself in such a way though? They appear to be using standard benchmarking tools, so is it possible that their findings are valid? I'm a big fan of Linux, but it doesn't mean that it is perfect. How many standard benchmarking studies have been done comparing the two? Much of Linux's performance ratings appear to be annecdotal. Not wanting to invite flaming, but just because it is MS, doesn't mean that it is immediately inferior.